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Vitamin D Could Reduce Lung Inflammation in Asthma, COPD – 2/11/2013

February 11, 2013 -- In the first study of its kind, results of a University of Nebraska Medical Center research study suggest that vitamin D may be important for humans exposed to agricultural organic dust. In the study, researchers found a significant decrease in lung inflammation in mice exposed to hog barn dust that received high doses of vitamin D.

"We found that the relatively high vitamin D treatment group had significantly decreased lung inflammation. The mice still got inflammation but didn't get it as bad," said Jill Poole, M.D., associate professor in the UNMC Department of Internal Medicine and principal investigator of the study.